What is it?

Tue Oct 26 13:15:58 EDT 2021

 As always, there was so much great information, from everyone, everywhere, even the turnip patch. Thank you, all! I will prepare a proper label, and add this one to the Museum.
Frank AkersAY
    On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 01:06:04 PM EDT, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  

Frank

The bucket was made in the tin shop of Roanoke shops.  It was listed as tin ware and was carried by the storehouse. Heavy and well built buckets.

Every one of the answers given is a possible one.  Since you are a station man it could have been used by the agent to collect water from a leaking roof.

Skip, you will know the answer.  My bucket has a convex bottom where it was used to collect something heavy and hot.

They were used in the shops to catch hot rivets.  I think we may have a photo showing this on the hopper car line back in the days when hot rivets were used. 

Jim Blackstock

 On 10/26/2021 11:51 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List wrote:

  " 'Dr'Huber"? Where did that come from?  
  Roger Huber Deer Creek Locomotive Works   

      On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 05:50:52 AM CDT, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  

     Re: Bucket, N&W I'll agree with 'Dr'. Huber. Coal bucket. Into the station, or caboose, or older, passenger cars. Charlie Long Lynchburg Home of the AM&O  

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   On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 4:47 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:

   It is a little too short and too narrow to be a "honey can," and it does not have holes for chain hooks on the sides, either.       Honey Cans were chained under the toilet discharges of passenger trains when they stopped at Roanoke, so the items of sewage would not be discharged onto the track.  I am sure the cans were also used at other terminals, as well, where trains had stops longer than just brief stops to receive/discharge passengers.  And, no, I do not know what craft of men had the job of handling (and dumping) these things.  Perhaps forces from the Coach Yard ?       The bucket also has the wrong proportions for a journal dope bucket, and no lid.       Verdict:  I am stumped. Ask somebodyn really old, like Mr. Miller or Mr. Blackstock !       -- abram burnett   Don't Trust Your Luck - Ship Your Turnips by Truck        ==========================================   A time is coming when men will go mad,       and when they see someone who is not mad,          they will attack him, saying,              "You are mad; you are not like us. "                  ~  St Antony the Great (+356 A.D.)   ==========================================    ________________________________________
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